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The heart of N-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A…
The heart of N-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A brief tractate, concerning the doctrine of the Quakers, demonstrating the destructive nature thereof, to religion, the churches, and the state, with consideration of the remedy against it. : Occasional satisfaction to objections, and confirmation of the contrary trueth. / By John Norton ...
Cambridge: printed by Samuel Green, 1659
Chapter 1 › The tenets of the Quakers concerning the same heads of Religion.
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How far the deportment of the Quakers, answereth to the outward guise and gest of the sectaries in Germany, & the low-countries prementioned, he that seeth the one; & heareth of the other, may easily Judge. The premises show the Quakers to be rather imitators of the Enthusiasts & Libertines, then Innovators.
How farre the deportment of the Quakers, answereth to the outward guise and gest of the sectaryes in Germany, & the low-countreyes prementioned, he that seeth the one; & heareth of the other, may easily Judge. The premises show the Quakers to be rather imitators of the Enthusiasts & Libertines, then Innovators.
That the persons thus opinionated are called Quakers; is not from their tenets, but from the gesture where with they are acted, at or about the time of the reception of their revelations: or, when else, in reference to credit their doctrines. This very gesture as circumstanced, renders their way in no small degree suspicious: it being the ancient and known manner of Satan, ⟨p. 6⟩when he inspired his Enthusiasts, to afflict the bodies of his instruments with pains & those often in their bowels, and to agitate them with Antic and uncouth motions, & in particular with this of quaking & trembling: thereby to amuse ignorant spectators with a superstitious astonishment, and so to dispose them to the expectation of some strange discovery preter-humane in pretence divine but indeed diabolical. Seneca presenteth the Sybil i. e. Satan's prophetess at the act of receiving her Oracles, from the revelation of the Devil; pale-faced with eyes wrung, in an unwonted and fearful manner, 1as also quaking & trembling.
That the persons thus opinionated are called Quakers; is not from their tenets, but from the gesture where with they are acted, at or about the time of the reception of their revelations: or, when else, in reference to credit their doctrines. This very gesture as circumstanced, renders their way in no small degree suspitious: it being the ancient and known manner of Satan,